The Board of Environmental Protection narrowly supports proposed electric car standards, but balks at similar rules for trucks. A final vote won’t be taken until after board staff responds to more than a thousand public comments about the proposed rule.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Maine farmers join in plea for federal help at national PFAS conference
Fred Stone, of Arundel, and 3 other Maine farmers address a gathering in Michigan focusing on forever chemicals in agriculture.
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Right whale population levels off after steep decline, but threats remain
A new estimate of the number of surviving North Atlantic right whales indicates that the population has hovered around 350 animals for 3 years.
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A warming Gulf Stream is edging ever closer to shore
The shifting current may cause breakaway areas of warm water that raise temperatures in the Gulf of Maine for months at a time, a study finds.
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Canadian company makes 2nd bid for zinc mine near Katahdin
Wolfden Chase Mtn. LLC says that Pickett Mountain has the country’s largest undeveloped reserves of a type of ore that contains high-grade zinc and smaller but still commercially valuable amounts of copper, lead, silver and gold.
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As Maine warms, scientists search for tree species that will keep its forests growing
Some are experimenting with assisted forest migration, relocating trees from more southerly habitats that might do well in Maine as temperatures rise and drive out native species.
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Native Mainer leads Jerusalem Post’s wartime coverage
David Brinn, who grew up in Portland, is the managing editor of Israel’s largest English-language daily newspaper.
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Hundreds attend solidarity vigil for Israel in Portland
At the same time as the event supporting Israel, a ‘Free Palestine’ rally in Monument Square drew about 60 demonstrators protesting the Israeli government’s military strikes on Gaza.
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UMaine developing interactive tool to track PFAS nationwide
A university team is creating a tracker that strives to connect state and federal testing data back to the likely source of contamination, note the potential impacts on food and water supplies and map out how PFAS travels through the environment.
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Grandson of Bangor teacher and former state senator among those killed by Hamas
Howard Trotsky’s grandson Aryeh Ziering was a captain with the Israel Defense Forces.